Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants has purchased film rights[6] to Nervous Breakdown executive editor Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which Algonquin published in August. (Hollywood Reporter)

Author Catherine Chung reveals what it was like to be named one of five "Brooklyn writers to look out for," although she didn’t live in Brooklyn[8]. (New York Times)

David Varela discusses his plans to stay in the house where poet Ted Hughes once lived[9], and write for one hundred hours, while taking writing requests from the public to raise money for literacy. (Literary Platform)